Many Are Cold, but Few Are Frozen

About 40 people died when the police locked activists in the Trade Union building and set it on fire.

Protection

Men in helmets means safety now

At the barricades

These colors don't run

On Maidan, you feel a healthy Ukrainian patriotism growing

Makeshift hospital

One of my favorite restaurants is now a hospital

Ordinary people

Ukrainians of all stripes were on Maidan today

Metro entrance

Note the garbage bags; this is a civilized movement

Maidan defence

Respect!

The people respond

If you kill Ukrainians, they come out in greater numbers

Molotov cocktail center

A very tough activist grabbed me for taking this photograph, but my wife charmed him into letting me go

The heart of Maidan

Look at the people: they will not be stopped

Metro Station Maidan Nezalezhnosti

Post-apocalyptic view of the city center

A Mongolian yurt at Maidan

The warmest activists are in this yurt

Defense forces on break

Well deserved

At the barricades

We need people like these to protect us

Guarding the barricades

Cheerful guards at the entrance by Khreschatik and Khmelnitsky streets

Feeding Maidan

Throughout the protests, volunteers prepared and distributed food

Latest images show street riots in Kiev on the morning of Thursday, Februray 20. News media has filmed protesters being shot at in front of hotel Ukraina as clashes continue in the Ukrainian capital. The number of victims is still rising, news agencies say at least 25 people have been killed.

The brutality of the Yanukovich regime took a turn for the worse. Yesterday, government snipers shot at their own people. At least 20 more are dead.

But the people began to shoot back. The police are only brave when they are safe. As soon as they were in danger, they ran.

Not worth dying to save Kleptocracy.

But 40 more died in the Trade Union building at the heart of Maidan. Police locked activists inside and set it on fire with Molotov cocktails. The big screen that lit up Maidan is out.

In spite of the carnage, the people turned out in force today. Violence may work in Russia, but it doesn't work here. The more government does, the more people come out in protest.